12 Mets oN Caraman Be the streets of Barcelona on Catalan national day last Sunday. Through Plaza Catalunya and the Ramblas there were hardly any of the traditional pigeons to be seen.
This overwhelming show strength was a celebration of tbe restoration of autosomy to Cata lonia after 39 years. What the reas won't tell you, the you, the Catalan political parties certainl won't ell you, is that the whole thin Autonomy is a very limited concession anyway. It means the granting of a degree of self-government by cbe cntral enment, which has the effect of denying the right of the oppressdetermine its own huture. Bur nor ever autodomy has been grunted to CaraInstead tbere is the pravisional erMoration of the Gieneraliat -the old Caralan Government This non-clected cabal wil have • purely advisory CHOICEY no formal tution is redrawn can the of the Generated Be established, The natichai question in Spaul today is dynamite. Everwhere national and regional minorities Tac steels 1o demand self determination or, at Made a state of attire frie very least, concessions from de suits neither the Government for obvious reasons reformist and capitalist political parties in the nationalities.
The present CarRian selle ment, on the other hand, suirs both sides. The hopes it will defuse the Catalan struggle and set a precedent for the other nationalities. The part CULAUS COTE CESUD entrenching themselves in the governments if a non elected transitional copine is set up first.
urties, the Socialists Basque Nationalises (PNT), hav Diade summar Transideal pro rosals. It is no coincidence that these two parties are the leadine inghts in the (con-elected) Basque Government-in-exile. They hoping for the same deal as their Catalan counterparts.
There has been fighting on the surcols botween bourgeois PNY and supporters of Basque independence.
The struggle in the nabons of the Spanish state will now focus on a crucial question of democritic rights. Does LATE bave the right to elect a Constituent Assembly to determine its тенета ко зрал, ос а Тля to he decided by a secret coven of party bursaucrats and Madrid
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